motorwayn.

1897 A. K. Owen Guernsey Market House Plan of Paym. 53 We must have cycle and motor ways to connect every city, hamlet and out-of-the-way retreat.

1908 Motor Age 19 Nov. 17 A road suitable for a motor way would also be suited for the farmer way, for the merchant way, for the school children way, for the tourist's way.

1914 Nation 8 Jan. 1/3 (advt.) The best motor-way across France from Normandy to the Mediterranean by the new ‘Route des Alpes’.

1921 Arts & Decoration May 14/3 Situated..on an avenue which is fast becoming the motor way of the city, the new bank will probably be found one of the most convenient in New York.

1906 Auto 3 Mar. 264/1 In the United States a ‘motor way’ is projected... The suggestion is that it should be 82 feet wide, divided into six sections, three for each way. These are respectively to be used by (1) slow motor vehicles, (2) those travelling at 30 m.p.h., and (3) high speed machines.

1923 Daily Mail 25 May 8 A great motor roadway about 226 miles long from London to Birmingham, Manchester, and Liverpool... The Motorway, as it is to be styled, will for its whole length pass through the private property of the syndicate.

1937 Sunday Times 18 Apr. 33/2 In the last six months or so there has sprung up from several quarters a demand for motorways, or autobahnen or autostrade—meaning..new roads for the exclusive use of motor traffic.

1959 Radio Times 23 Oct. 3/1 A motorway differs from all other types of roads in that it has no crossroads, no traffic lights, no pedestrian crossings. Certain categories of road-users are barred from it altogether; these include pedal cyclists, invalid carriages and ‘L’ drivers.

1972 ‘R. Gordon’ Doctor on Brain xiv. 97 All that lies before me is a well-tarmacked dead straight motorway leading to the grave.

1995 Face Jan. 77/3 Tarmac, the construction company extending the M56 motorway in Lancs, receives its first bomb threat from an eco-terrorist.

1979 J. Samuel Love of Skiing 44/2 Tractors..turn and air older snow to prevent the formation of hard-pack motorways.

1982 A. Barr & P. York Official Sloane Ranger Handbk. 124/2 Motorway, broad easy piste.

1995 Daily Mail Ski Mag. Feb. (France Suppl.) 7/2 There is plenty of motorway skiing to entertain those with limited aspirations. There are also more challenging slopes, including good mogul fields.

1999 Observer (Nexis) 10 Jan. (Escape Suppl.) 6 I get my confidence gradually on what my husband calls the motorways. Then I go for it, a bit, on the racier slopes.

1909 Trans. Amer. Soc. Civil Engin. Dec. 51 Both the highway and the motorway stringers consist of I-beams set on top of the cross-girders and cantilevers.

1940 Educ. Forum May 496/1 When Mr. Geddes suggested a N.M.P.A., a National Motorway Planning Authority, he had in mind nothing less than a huge national project of road making based on scientific principles.

1964 Daily Tel. 22 Jan. 14 The British are relative newcomers to the motorway age.

1973 R. Busby Pattern of Violence i. 15 He..gave them a name and the time of arrival of a motorway coach.

1988 Artist July 17/3 The 20th century environment of highrise buildings and tower cranes, motorway intersections, industrial installations, and sprawling suburbia.

1995 Daily Tel. 28 Dec. 19/4 Soon, no doubt, there will be a drive-in funeral parlour on the M25 and the whole panoply of human life will be available without ever leaving the motorway network.

1909 Amer. Gas Light Jrnl. 26 July 331/1 The night running of motor vehiclists has resulted in the establishing of many motorway repair shops, garages and places where motorists can get food and shelter at night.

1968 Billboard 25 May l18/3 Our records are sold in newsagents, stationers, department chain stores and supermarkets—even in motorway service areas.

1972 J. Mann Mrs Knox's Profession v. 31 She had pulled into the motorway café, hating the look of it.

1987 New Scientist 3 Dec. 37/1 Public ‘telepoints’ at railway stations, airports, motorway service stations, pubs, banks and high street shops.

1993 L. R. Banks Myst. of Cupboard i. 9 Their parents..flatly refused to take them to motorway service stops where they insisted you could only buy junk food.

1995 AA Mag. (Automobile Assoc.) Summer 4/1 The lack of information on road conditions offered by AA staff at motorway service areas.

1998 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 13 Oct. 11 The survey by Welcome Break, operators of motorway service stations, found that just under half of those drivers who use the motorway admit to having broken a road law.

1978 D. Goodwin Birds Man's World i. 22 The Kestrel is one of the most characteristic ‘motorway birds’, as the extensive sloping embankments and grassy verges provide..good numbers of insects and small mammals.

1987 World Mag. Oct. 28/1 The kestrel favours woods, farmland, parks, moorland, and grass verges, particularly those along motorways which has earned it the name ‘motorway bird’.

1998 Independent 2 June i. 11/2 England has a new motorway bird—the red kite. Confined to Wales for most of this century, the spectacular fork-tailed bird of prey can now be seen regularly from the M40.

1965 Times 2 Apr. 10/5 Plans for an urban motorway ‘box’, enclosing an area the size of Leeds, running for a total length of 37 miles around central London..have been approved.

1988 G. E. Cherry Cities & Plans (BNC) 173 Ringway One remained; dubbed as the ‘London Motorway Box’, it attracted hostility from the anti-roads lobby.

2002 Impact Transport Infrastructure Investm. on Regional Developm. (O.E.C.D.) 93 The M62..forms the northern side of the soon-to-be-completed Manchester Motorway Box.

1958 Times 8 Dec. 10/5 (headline) Traffic jam at motorway exit.

1972 Guardian 29 Nov. 6/6 There is a special sign with a cross across the vehicle, symbol for motorway exits which councils consider unsuitable for lorry traffic.

1988 Brit. Jrnl. Sociol. Dec. 572 If a worker was well situated near a motorway exit they could have a choice of between twenty and thirty local authorities to work for.

2005 S. Hall Mod. Signalling Handbk. (rev. ed.) 65/1 Countdown markers of the type used approaching motorway exits have been provided in a number of cases.

1959 Times 26 Mar. 24/6 (advt.) Five miles from London-Yorkshire Motorway Junction... 30,000 Square Feet of Accommodation in well-built Elizabethan stone-built Mansion.

1972 Daily Tel. 19 June 19/3 The transport profession has produced its own jargon... Multi-level motorway-junctions are ‘plates of spaghetti’.

2005 N. Dunse & C. Jones in D. Adams et al. Planning, Public Policy & Prop. Markets vii. 139 The spatial pattern of rents should reflect the regional accessibility landscape which encompasses say major motorway intercepts and motorway junctions.

1967 Times 19 Oct. 8/1 Mr. John Tennant..criticizing the second part of the motion, complained of ‘Motorway madness’. It seemed to be forgotten that the roads of Britain were close to saturation.

1969 Times 15 Dec. 9/4 (headline) Motorway madness in fog.

1973 Guardian 15 Oct. 14/1 Fog is the number one motorway menace with irresponsible..driving coming second. Mix the two, and the headlines next morning scream ‘Motorway madness’ yet again.

1995 Today (BNC) The mist heralded the traditional festive curse: motorway madness.

1959 Times 28 July 5/2 The contract for the service area of..Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, service area [has been awarded] to the Motorway Services (Newport Pagnell) Company.]

1982 Middle East Executive Rep. (Nexis) 5 x. 14 Other projects on Khorafi's books are..motorway services at Jahra [etc.].

1991 Which? Aug. 429/1 Like many of the newer motorway services, [it] is closer to the shopping centre concept than the transport cafe idea many earlier motorway services resembled.

2001 Mirror (Electronic ed.) 5 Jan. At a motorway services, I ordered an omelette in line with my ‘healthier eating’ vow.